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1  And you thought I was the mere stone reproduction of one of them.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6 The Convert: LII
2  Here they fell to, the men plying a stone jar freely, and passing round a cup.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV
3  Tess, half frightened, gave way to his importunity; placed her hand upon the stone and swore.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6 The Convert: XLV
4  They disappeared from the lane between the two stone posts which flanked the nearest field-gate.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2 Maiden No More: XIV
5  She had not considered what she had been doing; whether he were man or woman, stick or stone, in her involuntary hold on him.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: VIII
6  With stormy eyes she pulled the stay-bar quickly, and, in doing so, caught his arm between the casement and the stone mullion.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6 The Convert: LI
7  To have as a master this man of stone, who would have cuffed her if he had dared, was almost a relief after her former experiences.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6 The Convert: XLVI
8  Thus she conducted him by the arm to the stone bridge in front of their residence, crossing which they stood at the manor-house door.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII
9  When he was gone Tess stood at the window, and presently saw his form crossing the great stone bridge which conducted to the mill premises.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVI
10  Against the north wall was the empty stone coffin of an abbot, in which every tourist with a turn for grim humour was accustomed to stretch himself.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXVII
11  Still following the elevated way she reached Cross-in-Hand, where the stone pillar stands desolate and silent, to mark the site of a miracle, or murder, or both.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XLIV
12  The place took its name from a stone pillar which stood there, a strange rude monolith, from a stratum unknown in any local quarry, on which was roughly carved a human hand.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6 The Convert: XLV
13  Sometimes a wheel was off the ground, it seemed, for many yards; sometimes a stone was sent spinning over the hedge, and flinty sparks from the horse's hoofs outshone the daylight.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1 The Maiden: VIII
14  His father's hill-surrounded little town, the Tudor church-tower of red stone, the clump of trees near the Vicarage, came at last into view beneath him, and he rode down towards the well-known gate.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4 The Consequence: XXV
15  Their walk having been circuitous, they were still not far from the house, and in obeying his direction she only had to reach the large stone bridge across the main river and follow the road for a few yards.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5 The Woman Pays: XXXV
16  Some authorities stated that a devotional cross had once formed the complete erection thereon, of which the present relic was but the stump; others that the stone as it stood was entire, and that it had been fixed there to mark a boundary or place of meeting.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6 The Convert: XLV
17  In something less than an hour-and-a-half he had skirted the south of the King's Hintock estates and ascended to the untoward solitude of Cross-in-Hand, the unholy stone whereon Tess had been compelled by Alec d'Urberville, in his whim of reformation, to swear the strange oath that she would never wilfully tempt him again.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7 Fulfilment: LIV
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